Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick

Success Academy Charter School - Bushwick is a K-5 elementary school in Brooklyn known for its exceptionally strong academic performance. Students consistently achieve proficiency rates in English Language Arts (95%) and Mathematics (97%) that are well above citywide medians, placing the school among the top elementary schools in New York. The school serves a diverse student body, including a high percentage of English Language Learners (52%) and economically disadvantaged students (83%), and is recognized for effectively supporting these subgroups. While parents frequently commend the school for fostering significant academic growth and providing a challenging environment, some describe the atmosphere as intense and demanding. The school maintains a zero-tolerance approach to aggressive conduct, contributing to a 0.0% suspension rate. Despite a very low official parent survey response rate, individual parent testimonials often express strong satisfaction with their children's progress.

Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2023-2024). Survey topics are the DOE’s framework measures (each the average favorable response across its questions; expand a topic to see them and the citywide average); the dimension scores themselves are no longer in the public data file.^[3]